Under the Hood: Building and open-sourcing fbthrift - Facebook Engineering
Thrift v. 1 At Facebook, we place a lot of emphasis on choosing the best tools and implementations for our backend services, regardless of programming language. We use various programming languages on a case-by-case basis to optimize for the right combination of performance, ease and speed of development, availability of existing libraries, and so on. [...]Read More...
20 Feb 2014 ... Outside of Facebook, Thrift gained wide use as a serialization and RPC framework, but ran in to similar performance concerns and issues ...